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A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rather than using displays of masculinity to counter portrayals of Asian American men as passive and effeminate, Nguyen Tan Hoang develops a concept of bottomhood that opens up political alliances based on risk, vulnerability, and receptiveness.
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The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates... Læs mere
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Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Toby Beauchamp positions surveillance as central to the understanding of transgender politics to show how contemporary security practices extend into everyday gendered lives.
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Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Daniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surrounding the construction of specific infrastructural technologies and how that construction impacts the daily lives of Ethiopians.
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual active in the U.S. and U.K.
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Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood... Læs mere
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Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The famous trombonist and arranger from the James Brown band and Parliament-Funkadelic tells his own story.
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The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Writing letters to powerful people to win their favour and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence. This title presents the study of political and social patronage in 15th-century Florence.
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Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey analyzes the contemporary science of monogamy, demanding a critical reorientation toward the understanding of monogamy and non-monogamy in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth.
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Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity
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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization.... Læs mere
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